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If you feel like you've hit a career slump in your mid-20s, try inspiring yourself by watching TEDtalks, or have coffee with a mentor or try to reach out to someone new, Justine Rivero writes. The 20-somethings have a "unique ability to keep hustling above and beyond whatever hits us -- job market, economy, even ourselves sometimes," she writes. "The time to take risks and brace the fall is now. Succeed or die."

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Women and minority contractors in St. Louis can now apply for loans up to $1 million to help increase their business, thanks to a new $10 million fund established just for them. "Cash flow is like oxygen for a business," said Adolphus Pruitt. president of the St. Louis NAACP. "Without it, it will truly die." The Associated General Contractors of America and a coalition of developers and banks helped establish the fund, which has relaxed requirements and offers flexibility.

The cable TV business as we know it will be effectively dead in five years, done in by the industry clinging to its lucrative but outdated model of making consumers pay for content they don't want through bundles, Michael Wolff writes. "The cable programming business -- running, practically speaking, on consumer inertia -- doesn't work anymore, and shouldn't," Wolff writes. "It's too costly and inefficient. It will die."

Data analytics company SumAll allows employees to look up colleagues' salaries and bonuses, a strategy that CEO Dane Atkinson believes improves efficiency. Other startups have found such salary transparency doesn't always pay off as it restricts their ability to offer more compensation to top talent.

Rapportive, Speek and Contactually are some of the applications that help improve your communications and networking, Rebecca Thorman writes. For example, Contactually gives you a daily list of "people you need to reach out to, and you can track all your progress and communication patterns in your personalized dashboard," she writes.

Consistent poor performance is one sign it may be time to quit your job, says Leonard Schlesinger, the president of Babson College. Before walking out the door, however, make sure you understand the risks and have a plan of what you want to do, he advises.